George Washington was often concerned he would die young. His father died at 48 and his favorite sibling, Lawrence, was only in his early thirties when he passed away.
Many of Washington’s siblings died even younger than Lawrence, including his sister Mildred who was three and half-sister Jane who lived about 12 years. During the 18th century, men of Washington’s class lived on average to their late forties or early fifties whereas women were at much greater risk due to pregnancy and often did not live as long.
The Zimmerman telegraph, was a telegraph from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance in which Germany would give the land that Mexico lost to the United States if the Mexican people would fight the United States and keep them out of the war
Profiting from the rivalry between the Maharaja and the Zamorin , the Portuguese were well received and seen as allies, getting a permit to build a fort (Fort Manuel) and a trading post that were the first European settlement in India.
